Blood Roses
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What shall we do, all of us?
All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?
What's real is what's imagined in nine tales of transformation by Francesca Lia Block.
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Critical Praise for
Blood Roses
"A strangely haunting collection of whimsy."
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KLIATT
"Dark, fantastical dreams…will startle, provoke and fascinate."
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Booklist
"Individual stories that are riveting and memorable…an overall collection that invites rereading."
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Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
"Lush as ever."
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Publishers Weekly
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Roses and Bones
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The Frenzy
Love is a werewolf, influenced by the moon and terror, and always about to change. Liv has a secret. Something happened to her when she was thirteen. Something that changed everything. Liv knows she doesn’t belong anymore—not in her own skin, not in her family . . . not anywhere. The only time she...
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How Beautiful the Ordinary
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an...
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